New toy

[fluffymark]

Oh dearie me, nobody should have let a map obsessive like me find this:

Go to Google Map and scroll east lots - there are now maps of the UK and Ireland! Yaaaaaay. Everything bar North America and the British Isles has sunk like atlantis. Is most odd. And being google, you can search for cities, and roads, postcodes, and even travel routes, including ferries (e.g. London to Belfast) *impressed*. The channel tunnel is there, but as France isn't, it doesn't work very well. It refuses to give directions to Manchester, which is very sensible of it. Satellite view reveals the missing rest of the world, but all the cities outside North America have mysteriously turned invisible.

*playswithnewtoy* Yay maps!! *bounce* *bounce*

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[ceb.livejournal.com]

http://maps.google.co.uk (http://maps.google.co.uk), to save you all that scrolling :-)

[fluffymark]

Oh so it does. *shiny*. But, but... you don't get a clicky satellite button to press on the UK site! *wah*

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Oi! Manchester is shiny!

[fluffymark]

It won't let you leave Manchester either, if you're already there. I've had too many bad memories of Manchester (being stranded and scared to death in the really dodgy red light district on my own for a night, for example) to like it. :/

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Ah. Eek. *warmgentlehugs*

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

It's a bit strange - Edinburgh doesn't appear until you zoom in quite a lot. Is Edinburgh tiny or something?

[fluffymark]

It's probably a conspiracy by Glaswegians, or something.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Kindly desist from showing me shiny things when I am supposed to be getting work done.

Er, was supposed to have got some work done. Ahem. Shiny.

And if you, too, are a map geek - do the mapping exhibition at the Design Museum. Went there with j4 and Owen, and was educated, informed and entertained. Would cheerfully go again if I had a weekend free this month. Or next.

[fluffymark]

*giggles* Has been distracting me a few hours now. :)

Oooh map exhibition. No free weekends anytime soon, sadly, but I'll keep that map thing in mind. Thank you for telling me! :)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Er, some maps are a bit strange... This one (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.512405,-0.086035&spn=0.004784,0.005369&hl=en) has Bank Station (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532749&y=181132&z=1&sv=532750,181250&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf) in the wrong place.

Still, it's the only map I know of - printed or online - that shows the maze of alleyways around Cornhill. Try finding Castle Court!

[fluffymark]

You're right - Bank station isn't there really. Neither is Canary Wharf station underwater.

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[sheridanwilde.livejournal.com]

Not heard of the Design Museum, must investigate further (I'm assuming google (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22design+museum%22) won't let me down on this).

Re: maps

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Go there, it is good... Some of it too 'Design' and not enough substance, but the 'Where are we?' exhibition has breadth, depth and presentation.

[daevas.livejournal.com]

THat's an idea which came out of our research group in Ordnance Survey!!! we patented the idea.. apparently there are some legal discussions occuring now between OS and Google about the credits, etc.

[fluffymark]

*wow* Never knew you were involved with this. Am very impressed. :) :) :)

[daevas.livejournal.com]

I wasn't directly involved in that. Somebody else from another team! however it's part of my research group. I work in the remote sensing team. My particular project is to look at automatic mapping from aerial imaging! :)

[secret-vampire.livejournal.com]

Hehe, your posts always make a bright day even brighter....:)

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

I see this resolves the controversy of where the Centre of Britain is. If you zoom in from the map on the front page, you find it's actually in the centre of Crewe. And Google must be right, because Google is all-knowing.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Well, if one throws in NI, that's not altogether implausible :)